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		The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pankaj Mishra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. P. Lovecraft 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahatma Gandhi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lake Bell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mae Jemison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nate Parker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Draper 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The good thing about 'Nuyorican Soul' is we get a little bit of everybody liking it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Little Louie Vega 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charlie Hunnam 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But you want to talk about it in a derogatory fashion. You say the superstar has fallen. But you've never called me a superstar ever. It's only that you use these words when you want to say something derogatory. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Amitabh Bachchan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Salter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pankaj Mishra